Re: [Alsa-user] any hope for alsamixer controls for AMD RX 5500/5500M GPU?

2022-05-30 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
remember at least 1 device where something started numbering at 0 and > something else at 1. If it starts at 1, 0 will be invalid, but you can try > going the other way. Compare going off the end one way with being just on > the wrong pin. > > > On Sat, May 28, 2022, 11:23 PM Ro

[Alsa-user] any hope for alsamixer controls for AMD RX 5500/5500M GPU?

2022-05-28 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
Is there any hope of getting alsamixer controls for an AMD RX 5500/5500M GPU? I'm running Devuan Chimaera with kernel 5.10.0-14-amd64 and the version numbers on most "*alsa*" packages between 1.2.4-1 and 1.2.4-2. I am _NOT_ running PulseAudio. My GPU shows up to "lspci -nn" as this: 0b:00.0

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA MIDI on Raspberry PI: no events from input device (USB keyboard)

2021-01-31 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
For temporary purposes and/or a manual workaround, you could create a symlink: cd /dev/snd ln -s ./-midiC0D0 ./-midiC1D0 The "./" prefix is to force the command parser in the 'ln' executable to interpret the names as arguments rather than options. At the very least, that should tell you

Re: [Alsa-user] How to record audio from a live video (youtube via firefox) ?

2020-12-27 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
(Apologies if you want reply to list without also a direct reply. My mail client has 'reply' and 'Reply' only.) I am also using pure ALSA. After a little web searching a few days ago, I came up with this .asoundrc file that records to a raw file: v cut here

Re: [Alsa-user] Anybody got Google Meet going on Linux (Fedora) with just ALSA (ie not with PulseAudio)?

2020-07-26 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
Have you experimented with different content in your .asoundrc file? I don't know about Google Meet and Chromium specifically, but other setup (the old Firefox Hello, for example) required a specific .asoundrc to make it work. IIRC, this is it: defaults.pcm.card 0 defaults.ctl.card 0 HTH

Re: [Alsa-user] only 1.00 dB of playback volume range

2019-01-01 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
What is the path or URL to that list? On sourceforge, I see alsa-announce, alsa-cvslog, and alsa-user, but no alsa-dev*. Thanks, Robert > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 22:48:50 -0800 > From: frede...@ofb.net > To: "Robert M. Riches Jr." > Cc: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge

[Alsa-user] only 1.00 dB of playback volume range

2018-12-31 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
With a new OS installation on a pre-existing machine, some of the USB audio devices now have only 1.00 dB of playback volume adjustment, which of course is not enough to be terribly useful. The affected USB devices show up as "Audio Advantage MicroII" in the output of "aplay -L". From LSB, they

Re: [Alsa-user] Stub for libpulse

2017-03-19 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 12:36:46 +0100 > From: Nicolas George > To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Alsa-user] Stub for libpulse > > > > Hi. > > It seems that the Mozilla people have had the brilliant idea, starting

Re: [Alsa-user] no alsa-base.conf

2016-10-31 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
On Debian 7/Wheezy, I see this file: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf Provided you have the locate or mlocate or slocate command installed, you can do this (adding the leading 'm' or 's' if needed) to see what path(s) might be on your system: locate alsa-base.conf If all else fails,

Re: [Alsa-user] X insists on using card1 instead of card0 [solved]

2016-05-22 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
> To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > From: Felix Miata > Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 15:26:05 -0400 > > Clemens Ladisch composed on 2016-05-22 15:23 (UTC+0200): > > Thanks for your helpful reply! > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > >> I was able to get Xorg sounds working > > >

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-aloop with multiple identical sound cards

2016-04-29 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
> From: José Luis Artuch <art...@speedy.com.ar> > To: "Robert M. Riches Jr." <rm.ric...@jacob21819.net> > Cc: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 23:55:56 -0300 > > El vie, 29-04-2016 a las 17:26 -0700, Robert M. Riches Jr. escri

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-aloop with multiple identical sound cards

2016-04-29 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
The module's options are likely at least a start toward the solution. Here's an anonymized version of what I had in /etc/modprobe.conf when I used the loopback soundcard: options snd_aloop enable=1,1,1,1,1,1,1 index=4,5,6,7,8,9,10 id=lbuser1,lbuser2,lbuser3,lbuser4,lbuser5,lbuser6,lbuser7

Re: [Alsa-user] A long shot I know: recording from a POTS phone for voicemail

2016-02-23 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:06:44 -0500 > From: doug > To: p...@pricom.com.au, alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > > On 02/23/2016 03:10 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > > People, > > > > I know this is a bit of a long shot but does anyone here have any > > experience setting

[Alsa-user] fwiw: solution to silent Vimeo in Firefox

2016-01-03 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
In case it might be helpful to anyone else now or in the future, here's a solution to a problem: On my Debian 7/Wheezy system, one user could play a Vimeo piece with sound, but another user got silence for the same piece. The second user also had silence for some Google logos that allegedly had

Re: [Alsa-user] Unbalanced stereo input as balanced mono input

2015-08-23 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 19:11:17 +0200 From: Gunnar Arndt madenhac...@gmail.com To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Hi Alsa users, I have the following idea, which may be of interest for other users, too: I would like to abuse the 'normal' unbalanced stereo input of my on-board sound as

Re: [Alsa-user] starters help (help!)

2015-08-17 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
, the module needs to be loaded into the running kernel. That is done by the modprobe command. HTH Robert Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 20:41:08 +0200 From: F. Dols f.j.h.d...@gmail.com To: Robert M. Riches Jr. rm.ric...@jacob21819.net, alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Hi, sudo modinfo

Re: [Alsa-user] starters help (help!)

2015-08-16 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
In another reply, you posted that sudo aplay -L did not show the Indigodjx card. I wonder if the udev rule might be missing, which IIUC could cause the module to not load, which IIUC could cause the card to not be visible. Is the INDIGODJX kernel module loaded? sudo lsmod | grep indigodjx

Re: [Alsa-user] over the net sound stream

2015-03-26 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
at piping stuff around. The post uses nc instead of netcat.   Original Message   From: Robert M. Riches Jr. Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 5:47 PM To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net; da...@gmx.com Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] over the net sound stream There is a way to do it using

Re: [Alsa-user] over the net sound stream

2015-03-25 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
There is a way to do it using the ALSA loopback soundcard and [Net]JACK. It's not easy. There are some tutorials on the web, though it's easy to get confused about whether the tutorials are talking about JACK1 vs. JACK2. IME, the ALSA loopback soundcard has a disadvantage that it lets the

[Alsa-user] second kernel panic involving snd_aloop on Debian Wheezy

2014-11-20 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
For the second time in a little over 90 days, my main system has had a kernel panic in which snd_aloop is implicated. The system is using this kernel (latest stable for Wheezy): Linux one 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux ii linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie to compile opl3 driver

2014-11-02 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
(second attempt, had forgotten to copy the list) The driver is a kernel module, not usually a package. Try modprobe snd-opl3sa2 and/or modprobe snd-opl3-lib and/or modprobe snd-opl3-synth I don't have a kernel as recent as 3.7.10. Debian Wheezy's kernel 3.2.0-4 has

[Alsa-user] anyone else see kernel panic when killing alsa_in?

2014-10-03 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
Has anyone else ever seen a kernel panic immediately after killing an alsa_in process? I'm running Debian Wheezy, x86_64. A user's alsa_in process had produced about 700MB of log. I made the mistake of removing the log file. A couple of minutes later, I did killall alsa_in as root. (There was

Re: [Alsa-user] Tinycore and Haswell produce only chopped noise

2014-08-30 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
not that it plays some modes but not others; it doesn't play properly with any mode. I reran some tests, based on your advice. Info interspersed below. Thanks, Robert Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:46:27 -0700 From: chris hermansen clherman...@gmail.com To: Robert M. Riches Jr. rm.ric

[Alsa-user] Tinycore and Haswell produce only chopped noise

2014-08-29 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
Trying to get sound working on TinyCore 5, 64-bit kernel, 32-bit userspace with a Haswell i5-4690 CPU and an Asus H97M-Plus motherboard. My primary need is at least one channel of audio output from VLC. Kernel modules appear loaded. aplay -l and aplay -L show one card, ALC887-VD. Alsamixer

Re: [Alsa-user] e-mu 0204 onset/offset distortions

2014-02-16 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
From: Samuele Carcagno sam.carca...@gmail.com To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 13:36:02 + Hi, I'm trying to set up the e-mu 0204 for psychoacoustics research purposes on Debian Wheezy. When using aplay to play a short (200 ms, or 900 ms) wav file, at the

Re: [Alsa-user] e-mu 0204 onset/offset distortions

2014-02-16 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:56:08 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Unruh un...@physics.ubc.ca To: Samuele Carcagno sam.carca...@gmail.com Cc: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, Samuele Carcagno wrote: On Sunday 16 Feb 2014 20:47:44 you wrote: I have never seen that in any of the

Re: [Alsa-user] OSS emulation doesn't allow mixing.

2014-01-30 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
ChaosEsque Team, Congratulations on being first person from a mailing list that I have ever added to an email deny list. If you can't accept reasonable advice without foul-mouthed reviling and threats of violence against a benefactor, you aren't allowed in my inbox. Robert Date: Thu, 30 Jan

Re: [Alsa-user] Akai EIE

2014-01-09 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:09:17 -0500 From: Nathan Jackson nate.ds.jack...@gmail.com To: Clemens Ladisch cladi...@googlemail.com Cc: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Clemens Ladisch wrote: This device cannot change any of its sample format parameters. So either it sends wrong data, or

Re: [Alsa-user] M-Audio keystudio usb midi keyboard works on Ubuntu Studio 12.04, not on 13.10, now what ?

2013-11-03 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 20:47:23 +0200 From: Jyrki Saarela jyrki.saar...@gmail.com To: Daniel Mack zon...@gmail.com Cc: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Daniel Mack zon...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, then we have a good test setup to investigate on. Seems so,

Re: [Alsa-user] Using compressor + limiter with 6 channel sounds

2013-10-13 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
I probably don't know any answers, but would like to make sure I at least understand the question. Are you trying do AGC on a pair-wise basis? Or, is it something else you're trying to do? Thanks, Robert Riches Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 15:02:42 +0200 From: Paolo Bolzoni

Re: [Alsa-user] seeking low latency usb or PCIE sound card/interface

2013-09-20 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:19:48 +0200 From: Clemens Ladisch cladi...@googlemail.com To: Robert M. Riches Jr. rm.ric...@jacob21819.net, alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote: I'm seeking suggestions for a low latency usb (or PCIE) sound interface (or card

[Alsa-user] seeking low latency usb or PCIE sound card/interface

2013-09-18 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
I'm seeking suggestions for a low latency usb (or PCIE) sound interface (or card). Or, maybe some good news that USB sound devices are generally reasonably low in latency. My target latency would be around 25-50msec per component. This is a thin-client setup, so playback sound would go through

Re: [Alsa-user] recording audio from speakers

2013-07-29 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
From: ?? akhil...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:50:01 +0700 To: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net X-Headers-End: 1V3hHm-0005Gs-GX Cc: 72-alsa alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net you may also try alsa's loopback module

Re: [Alsa-user] help with first ALSA program, please?

2013-05-18 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 12:36:57 -0500 From: Perry Kivolowitz pe...@kivolowitz.com To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Hi All, I have written an ALSA output program which is producing garbled results. The results are the same when I wrote an equivalent program using RtAudio / ALSA. The

Re: [Alsa-user] install problem

2013-05-04 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 06:14:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Unruh un...@physics.ubc.ca To: Joe Armstrong joea...@gmail.com Cc: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net On Sat, 4 May 2013, Joe Armstrong wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Bill Unruh un...@physics.ubc.ca wrote: On Fri, 3 May 2013,

Re: [Alsa-user] Slightly OT: how to pipe output to look like a soundcard

2013-03-01 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
(Oops. Forgot to reply to the list as well...) I'm definitely not an ALSA expert, but I believe there's supposed to be a way to do what you're asking. There's a kernel module called snd_aloop that creates one or more artificial sound cards. You can play sound samples to it from one client and

Re: [Alsa-user] 2 sound outputs?

2013-03-01 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
(Ooops. Forgot to reply to the list as well...) Hi Doug, I'm definitely not an ALSA expert, but I am aware there are ways that should do what you want. The following answer assumes you are _NOT_ running PulseAudio. If you are running PulseAudio, you'll probably need answers from someone who

[Alsa-user] loopback device (snd_aloop) appears running too fast, causing overruns

2013-02-23 Thread Robert M. Riches Jr.
(first-time poster to list) My snd_aloop loopback device appears to be running too fast and is causing overruns. OS is Mageia 2. Kernel is 3.4.32-server-2.mga2. Hardware is Asus P6T6 WS Revolution in case that matters. First symptom: Was using snd_aloop with JACK for a zero- client setup with